The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a 1990 American action/comedy film starring comedian Andrew Dice Clay as Ford Fairlane, a "Rock n' Roll Detective," whose beat is the music industry in Los Angeles. The film was directed by Renny Harlin. Ford Fairlane is seen sitting on a beach smoking as the film opens. A flashback initiates, showing a roaring crowd at a concert given by fictional popular heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black makes an eccentric entrance down a zip-line onto the stage and begins performing. Shortly into one of the band's songs, Bobby Black collapses on... stage and dies. After The Black Plague singer is murdered onstage, shock-jock Johnny Crunch, an old friend who came west with Fairlane, hires Ford to track down a mysterious teenage groupie named Zuzu Petals who may have a connection to Bobby Black's death. Soon after hiring Fairlane, Crunch is electrocuted on the air.
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| Release date: | July 11, 1990 |
| Directed by: | Renny Harlin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joel Silver, Steve Perry |
| Editor: | Michael Tronick |
| Cinematography: | Oliver Wood |
| Screenplay by: | Daniel Waters, James Cappe, David Arnott, Daniel Waters |
| Estimated budget: | $49,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Thriller |